The Postsocialist ‘Missing Other’ of Transnational Feminism?

Tlostanova, Madina; Thapar‐Björkert, Suruchi; Koobak, Redi

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“…Neither of them fit neatly in the established categories of West-East and North-South. The three contexts are seldom interrogated together in existing debates on transnational feminism and queer solidarities where North-South tensions are more salient (Ghodsee 2019;Tlostanova et al 2019). Currently, Russia and Turkey, on the one hand, and Scandinavian countries, on the other, have remarkably different positionalities in gender and sexual politics with the latter seen as forerunners of democracy, gender equality, and homotolerance, whereas the former as leaders in anti-gender and homophobic campaigns aimed at the consolidation of authoritarian state power (Arik et al, 2022).…”

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Introduction

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Sasunkevich

2021

Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

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Presenting the research context of the book, this chapter familiarizes the reader with the conceptual, methodological, and ethical discussions and concerns that are present throughout the book. After a brief overview of gender and sexual politics in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries, it introduces the book’s multi-scalar transnational methodology—an innovative approach to the study of transnationalizing feminist and LGBTI+ activisms that traces convergences and contrasts between seemingly disparate places and connectivities below and beyond the national scale. The chapter offers descriptions of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries, as well as a discussion of how contested terms such as feminism, LGBTI+ , queer, activism, NGOs, West–East, North–South are navigated in the book.

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Introduction

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Liinason

Sasunkevich

2021

Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

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“…The first assumption we want to problematize is that feminist and LGBTI+ activists from the South/East are always inferior, less resourceful, and less privileged than activists from the North/West; in practice, the relations and inequalities among activists are more complex. The following example problematizes the relations between activists from Western countries and the postsocialist East, a region that has long been "forgotten" in transnational feminist studies where North-South or First-Third world tensions have been more salient (Bonfiglioli and Ghodsee 2020;Ghodsee 2019;Koobak and Marling 2014;Suchland 2011;Tlostanova et al 2019).…”

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Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism

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Liinason

Sasunkevich

2021

Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

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This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of the conditions for feminist and LGBTI+ activism in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia, including legislative frames, access to resources and funding, employment conditions, and geographical and geopolitical locality. Instead of taking the relations between the state, civil society, and feminist and LGBTI+ activists for granted as an overarching explanatory model for comparative analysis, the chapter examines the multifaceted nature of the relations between the state, civil society and feminist and LGBTI+ activists in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia. Further, the chapter scrutinizes transnational, national, and local scales that influence the conditions of activism across the three research contexts. The discussions in the chapter are wrapped up by an interrogation of how donor politics influence the activist agenda in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia and of what resistant practices activists lean on in their everyday work.

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“…If perceived as absent, it can be simulated (Bryant and Hatay 2011), so important it is. Engagement with current lives of 'post-socialism' in studying wider European phenomena is long overdue (Kojanić 2020;Tlostanova, Thapar-Bjökert and Koobak 2019). This is mainly because of the specific temporality this field offers -a rich assemblage of pasts and futures -to the point of 'disorientation' (Jelača and Lugarić 2018).…”

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Refugees and Fish Fingers

Najšlová

2021

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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Emancipatory narratives and acts often emerge in struggle against injustice and marginalisation. This article shows the ease with which they can be employed to justify the denial of rights. The space-time is ‘post-socialist’ Eastern Europe, more specifically, the Visegrad platform set up in the 1990s to facilitate entry of three such states into the European Union (EU). The ethnography begins in 2015, when Arab and/or Muslim refugees appeared in Europe in what most EU politicians deemed as unsettling numbers. I read moments from conversations with policymakers and activists, as well as archive material, through lenses of solidarity and sovereignty. This approach allows us to see that delegitimisation of others’ rights can well be a product of relational insecurity, in this case, frustration in the Visegrad’s ‘policy world’ with the region’s recent Westernisation.

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The Postsocialist ‘Missing Other’ of Transnational Feminism?

Cited by 24 publications

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